Decorated bullion fringe



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' Y H. J. MULLER DECOR'TED BULLION FRINGE Filed Sept. 17. 19,26

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UNITED sIATEs PAIENI omet.

IIERMAN J. MULLER, 0E ATLANTIC oITY, NEW JERSEY, AssIGNoR To IIENSELJ SILK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, oF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A

oF PENNSYLVANIA.

CORPORATION` DECOBATED BULLION FRINGE.

Application iled September 17, 1926. Serial No. 136,148.

The object of my invention isto produce bullion fringe having a ribbon, braid, or other ornamentation disposed on the face thereof, the said ornamentation being secured to the bullion vfringe by the binder Warps of the said fringe in a manner clearly illustrated on the accompanying drawing, of which:

Fig. 1 is a face view of the fringe; and

Fig. 2 is a sectional view takenon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, drawn on an enlarged scale.` As illustrated in Fig. 1, the bullion fringe comprises the usual strands of weft threads or cords 1, l which are bound together adjacent one edge of the fringe by Warps consisting in the present instance of knitted chains 2, 3, 4, and 5, the weft cords being embraced by the threads forming the chains and being twisted in the usual manner beyond the binder Warps as illustrated at 6, 6. My invention comprises the placing of a ribbon, braid, or other ornamentation on the face of the bullion fringe, as illustrated at 7, which in the present instance is shown as being braid `or ribbon. n

The braid 7 is connected along one of its edges to the fringe proper at predetermined intervals by means of the binder Warp chains 4 and 5, as shown at 8 and 9 respectively on Fig. 1. i

In the course of manufacture, the needles Which form the stitches of the chains 4 and 5 are caused to pierce the braid in the places illustrated, thus one portion 10 of each stitch lies on the face of the braid and the other portion 11 lies on the back of the weft cords 1, thus securing lthe braid to the fringe, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

In the present instance, the needles pierce the braid from the back of the fringe and the portion 11 of the stitches comprises the loops of the stitches which are cast from the needles at the back of the fringe. This, however, is not essential as the order may `be reversed Without departing from the invention. Other methods. of forming vthe binding of the fringe may be employed Without departing from the invention which includes the attachment of the ornamentation by the same operation which forms the bind- Ing.

`While I have illustrated and described my invention as bein applied to bullion fringe, I do not intend t at the scope of theinvention shall be so limited, as an ornamentation may be applied to other forms of fringe, such as those known in the art as cut fringe or straight fringe, in a manner falling Within the sco e of the appended claims upon which I epend and desire to protect by Letters Patent.

I claim:

1. In the manufacture of bullion fringe having a binding formed adjacent one edge thereof, the attachment of an ornamental device tothe face of the fringe by and at the same time as the binding portion of said fringe is being produced.

2. In the manufacture of bullion `fringe comprising `weft elements bound together ad'acent one edgeof the fringe by a series of knitted chains, the attachment of a braid adjacent one of its edges by means of the needles which form said chains piercing the said braid and forming the stitches of which the chains are composed around the weft elements and the pierced portions of the braid simultaneously. 3. In combination with bullion fringe having weft elements bound together adjacent one edge of the fringe by means of a series of knitted Warp chains, an ornamental device secured to said fringe by at least one ofthe said binder chains.

4. In combination with bullion fringe having Weft elements bound together adjacent one edge of the fringe by means of a series of knitted Warp chains, a ribbon-like ornamentation secured adjacent one of its edges to said fringe by at least one of the said `binder chains.

stitches of ewch chain embracing the inits edges to said fringe by at leastl the in` dividual weft cords, each adjacent pair of nerinost binding chain, the free edge of said said weft cords being twisted together beornament being superposed upon the twisted 10 yond said binding and to the edge ofthe portion of said weft cords substantially as 5 fringe opposite t-he said binding, a ribbonshown.

like ornamentation secured at intervals throughout its length and adjacent one of HERMAN J. MULLER 

